Nightingale hospitals

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Are these multi million pound hospitals back open again !? Or aren’t there enough doctors and nurses to run them?

Sorry that should read, ‘or are there not enough doctors and nurses to run them’

Yes, some are up and running and yes, there is a problem with staffing them. There was a thread a few days ago stating which had covid patients.

I think staffing is a major issue.

I think those fuckers in charge need to give NHS workers the vaccine.

Staffing was always going to be a problem.

The reports of bed occupancy levels in some London hospitals are alarming this early in the winter lurgy season.

So they may need to become infectious disease wards - if not ICU (original concept) because you can't move enough staff to them, then general covid wards (still need staff but not as many)

There were never enough staff to run them they are a publicity stunt. There has been stories in the media for years about the shortage of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in this country. However it looks really good to build a shiny new hospital overnight. There aren’t enough ICU trained nurses in the hospitals to give ventilated patients the correct level of care never mind the nightingales. They will rob Peter to pay Paul to staff them as the staff will have to come from whichever hospital trust they are linked with. This either takes staff off the floor of the main acute hospital or shuts services down in the main hospital (specialist nurse roles, outpatients, screening departments etc) and these staff get redeployed yet don’t have recent experience and skills to safely look after potentially very sick patients at the bed side.

@AgnesNaismith

I think those fuckers in charge need to give NHS workers the vaccine.

NHS are priority 2 for the vaccine, and they began the programme with priorities 1 and 2 together, and yes they are getting it.

As there are about 1 million people (a guess of frontline and key roles, from total workforce of 1.4 million) it might take some time

@AuntieStella that’s not what is being reported

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/18/nhs-staff-priority-covid-vaccine-hospital-bosses-england-coronavirus